Loading-platform.



A. A. MUDGE,

- LOADING PLATFORM.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT- 10, Ian.

1,254',835.' I Patented Jan. 29, 1918.

v UNITED; STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERTA. MUDGE, 0F CLEVELAND, 01:10.

LOADING-PLATFORM.

Application filed September 10, 1917.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that l, ALBERT A. Monet), a citizen ofthe United States, residingat Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Loading-Platforms, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference be ing had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to .loading and un loading platforms for warehouses, depots, and the like; and it has for its object the provision of a platform having angular-1y disposed edged portions between which a vehicle may be hacked and loaded directly from the platform at either or both the side or the back of the vehicle.

The advantages gained through such a design of platform are the easy access offorded to either the side or the back of the vehicle for the purpose of arranging the load as desired, or for removing some articles from the vehicle directly onto the platform without disturbing others; the in crease of platform area while decreasing the extent of projection of the vehicle into the roadway; and the apportioning of a definite amount of platform space to each vehicle and affording definite locations for, the vehicles, thus allowing each to be driven to or from the plat-forn'i without disturbing others.

In addition to the general object above mentioned, my invention provides a con .struction having certain advantages which will hereinafter become apparent from the detailed description of the structure.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a fragmentary perspectiye view of a building having a platform designed in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2 is a sectional plan through a corner of the building, showing a portion of the platform; and Fig. 3 is a vertical section on the line 3?) of Fig. 2.

The wall of the building is represented at 1, and the platform at 2. The loading or unloading edge of the platform is of zigzag or saw-tooth formation, the projections 3, which correspond to the teeth of the saw, having sides that are disposed at substantially 90 degrees to each other, providing notches between. the projections having right angle sides. As will be seen presently, it is the notches which are of importance in the attainment of the objects Specification of Letters Patent. t t an; 29, 191

Serial No. 190,495.

of my invention, for it-is into these notches that the vehicles are adapted to be backed.

'In this'connectio-n it may be explainedthat while it is considered quite in'iportant that the sides of the notches bear a right angular relation to each other it is not so essential that the edges of each projection are correspondingly disposed, nor that they be of the same length. The invention in. its broadest conception requires only that the platform have edged portions that are so disposed to each other that a. vehicle, backed into the angle between such portions, may be easily loaded from the side or end, the respective edged portions of the platform being substantially parallel to the adjacent end or side of the vehicle.

In the present preferred construction, there is a platform supporting wall l spaced from the foundation wall 5, which is directly beneath and practically a continuation of the wall 1 of the building, and the wall 41 extends along the platform at the base of the projections 3, so that the spaces beneath the projections are free from obstructions, that the wheels, fenders, or other protruding parts of the vehicle may pass beneath the projections (where the body of the vehicle is narrower than the outside dimensions of such parts), allowing the body of the vehicle to stand in close proximity to the edge of the platform.

In a concrete structure, as shown, the edge of the platform may be bound and pro tected by a suitable iron bumper 6.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. A platform of the class described having edged portions so disposed to each other that a vehicle may stand with its side in loading or unloading relation to one portion while its end is in similar relation to the other portion.

2. A platform of the class described having adjoining edged portions that are disposed at substantially degrees to each other so that a vehicle may stand within the angle between such portions with its side substantially parallel to one and its back substantially parallel to the other.

8. A platform of the class described having a zigzag edge, as and for the purpose specified.

4;. A platform of the class described the loading or unloading edge whereof is formed of a series of projections, the sides of adjacent projections adjoining each other at substanti ally right angles.

The con'iloination of a building wall, a platform extending therefrom the edge whereof is formed of a series of projections between which vehicles are adapted to stand, such projections being spaced above the vehicle supporting surface, and a supporting wall extending along the platform at the base of said projections.

6.111 a structure of the character set Copies of this patent may be obtained for forth, the combination of a platform having edge portions so disposed to each other that a vehicle may stand with its side in loading or unloading relation to one portion while its end is in similar relation to the other portion, and a platform support inset from the edge of the platform to pro vide wheel clearance beneath such edge.

In testimony whereof, I hereunto afiix my signature.

ALBERT A. MUDGE.

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Washington, I). G. 

